WHO/Europe – What are the advantages and limitations of different quality and safety tools for health care?

The term "quality tools" is used in many different ways to refer to a method used by an individual, a team, an organization or a health system. It is most often used in a narrow sense in American texts to refer to a set of simple "continuous quality improvement" methods (CQI tools).

More broadly, it includes many other safety and quality methods, frameworks, programmes or systems. Some are diagnostic methods to help decision-making, some are for intervention and change only, and some include both methods for diagnosis and intervention.

What are the advantages and limitations of different quality and safety tools for health care?

A Health Evidence Network (HEN) analysis of the effectiveness of different tools for improving quality of care in hospitals and communities.

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